Barbarian Odyssey

We have just had some information through from Scottish Borders Council regarding a Temporary Road Closure in the area. The road from St Marys Loch to Talla Reservoir past the Meggat reservoir is to be closed to through traffic at Talla Linnfoots on Friday 5th June from 6.00pm to Sunday 7th June 23.00.

The reason we have been given for this inconvenince is not for safety work, resurfacingor the additon of passing places but for the Filming of a TV Drama !!!!!!

The ususal diversions are inforce!

Yes Summer 2009 is here after a long cold winter. We are now on our Summer hours:

10.00 – 5.00pm – (Closed Tuesdays)

New in 2009 are the High Teas served from 4.00pm. This consists of a varying select menu which at the moment contains Omelette, Ham Salad and bolognaise sauce. Added to this is a choice of Tea/Coffee and a piece of Barbara’s home baking. All this for £7.95.

We now have 3 menu’s to keep both yourselves and us on our toes:

Breakfast – to 11.30
Lunch – 11.30 – 4.00
High Tea – from 4.00

You may notice no mention of Bistro Evening meals. We are giving them a miss this year. Keeping an eye on the economy and staffing levels.

Easter is a difficult time for us. Physically if the weather is good we can have 4 busy days in a row, and this year it was. Our 1 day off was not long enough. The weather always has a part to play in how busy or quite we are. This year was a total contrast to Easter last year. Although not hot it was dry which looking at the forecast a few days earlier was unexpected. The result was that we were exceptionally busy, a good start to the year. Judging deliveries is always difficult for us. We need to order things up to 5 days before the weekend. We are unable to pop to the shop to get more stock. Sometimes we run out of things, not often but it does happen. This Easter weekend we ran out of a lot on the Monday so sorry if we disappointed.

Over the next 2 weeks 3 sections of the A708 close to the cafe are been resurfaced. This has to be done under full road closure with the road been shut 9am – 4pm

Wed 4 Feb to Fri 6th Feb – Cappercleuch
This section of road is just before Cappercleuch by the side of St Marys Loch. Access to the Glen Cafe area will only be possible from the Moffat side & Megget Road.

The cafe will be closed on Wednesday (Thurs & Fri we are closed anyway on our winter hours)

Sat 7 Feb & Monday 9 Feb
The section of road by Chapelhope at the Moffat end of Loch of the Lowes will be closed on the Sat & Monday but it will be open on Sunday. Access on the Sat & Monday will be possible from the Selkirk side of the Glen Cafe & the Megget road.

The cafe will be open as usual on the Sat 7th & Sun 9th (Shut on Mon – winter hours)

Tue 11 Feb & Wed 12 Feb
The section outside of the Glen Cafe is due to be surfaced on these days

The cafe will be shut again on Wed 12 (shut Tue – winter hours)

General Winter Hours to sometime in March
Our current winter hours are Sat & Sun 10am – 4pm and Wed 12am – 4pm

Sometime between 4.30pm last Wednesday14th and 9.30am Thursday 15th someone decided for some reason to throw a big stone through one of the cafe’s front window. Needless to say the shock of seeing broken glass all over the floor came as a bit of a shock. The cost of this repair came to about £50 for the new piece of glass along with some putty and filler etc.

It is not all about the cost though. The window needed to be boarded up (it was windy & rainy). There was the 50mile round trip to pick up the glass. There was the time it took to fix it along with the clearing up.

So if anyone recognises this stone and wants it back they are more than welcome to it. When they pick it up they could also tell us why they did it.